Skirt-supporter.



Patented July l6, l90l. J. T. SHUUP.

SKIRT SUPPURTER.

(Application file l Mgy 4, 1901.)

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JAMES T. SI'IOUP, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO METTIE R. SHOUP AND PATRICK W. MATTIMORE, OF SAME PLACE.

SKIRT-SUPPORTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent 0. 678,590, dated July 16, 1901.

Application filed May 4, 1901. Serial No. 58,679. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES T. SHOUP, a citizen of the United States, residing at Detroit, county of VVay'ne, State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Skirt-Supporters; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

'My invention relates to improvements in skirt-supporters and other garment-fastening devices, and is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective view of the hook employed to fasten the parts of the holder to the cloth. Fig. 2 is a view showing one of the hooks engaged with the cloth. Fig. 3 is a view showing the eye part of the fastening prepared to engage with the fastening-hook shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a view showing the parts illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 3 assembled and engaged with the cloth. Fig. 5 is a view of the second hook. Fig. 6 is a view ,of the same engaged with the cloth. Fig. 7 is a view of the hook part of the device prepared to be engaged with the hook shown in Fig. 5. Fig.8 is a view of the hook part of the device fastened to the cloth. Fig. 9 is a cross-sectional view of the eye part of the device, with the cloth to which it is attached, and Fig. 10 is a similar view of the hook part, Figs. 9 and 10 being so situated as to show the manner of engaging them.

In the drawings, A is a hook consisting of -the straight bar a and the two hooks a a formed at the ends. Between the bar a and the hooks there is a depression o The hook is passed through the cloth, as shown in Fig. 2, the bar resting against the cloth at the back and the hooks depending in front of the cloth.

B is a piece of sheet metal rolled at the bottom to receive the side of the frame B and at the edges to receive the hooks a a. The frame B is of sufficient size to surround the part B and to snap over the upper angle of the hooks and come to rest in the depres- 5o sions a a of the hooks, thus holding the part firmly together and to the cloth. ,When the parts are together, the upper bar of the frame B and the bar a of the hook rest against the cloth on the opposite sides,holding it between them in such a way as to prevent the strain coming on the hooks where they pass through the cloth.

The sheet-metal plate Bstands a sufficient distance away from the cloth to allow a hook to pass back of it, as shown in Fig. 9.

A is a hook constructed like hook A, but inserted in the cloth with the hooks ct a pointing upward.

B is a plate like B and is engaged with a frame B in the manner before described. It differs from the plate B in thatitis provided with a hook I), struck up from its body, this hook being arranged and designed to enter back of the plate 13 to hold the two sections 7: together, as will appear from Figs. 9 and 10. Where the device is used as a skirt-supporter, the part employing the hook A and plate B are engaged with the waist and the other part with the skirt.

To engage the device with the garment, the hook A or A is engaged with the cloth and the plate B or B slipped over the hooks on one side of the cloth and the frame B swung over the angle of the hook into locking engagement with the depressions a o The device is thus readily removed for use on a different garment or to permit the garment to be Washed.

What I claim is- 1. In garment fasteners, the doublepronged hook in combination with the plate B and the frame B, substantially as described.

2. In garment fasteners, the doublepronged hook provided with the holding-bar a and the plate and holding-frame, substantially as described.

3. In garment fasteners, the doublepronged hook, the plate and the holding frame in pairs and means for engaging the opposing parts, substantially as described.

4:. A skirt-supporter consisting of apair of devices, consisting of a hook and a frame arranged to engage the hook from the bottom for engaging the two parts of the device, suba-nd a similar hook and a frame arranged to stantially as described. 10 engage the hook from the top, substantially In testimony whereof I sign this specificaas described. tion in the presence of two Witnesses.

5 5. The combination of the hook A having JAMES T. SHOUP. depending points, the plate B and frame B, Witnesses:

the hook A1 having upstanding points and S. E. THOMAS,

corresponding plate and frame, and means FRANK A. DREWE. 

